scholarly journals Die diskoers tussen Job en Cloete struktureelsemanties beskou

Literator ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Buscop
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Semantic View ◽  
Structural Semantics ◽  
Heuristic Guidance

A structural-semantic view of the discourse between Job and Cloete This article examines an aspect of the interaction between linguistics and literature. It is argued that the structural-semantic theory as developed by A.J. Greimas provides a useful approach in guiding the reader towards a realisation of a coherent whole in literary texts. Possibilities for the application and amplification as well as the usefulness in literature are examined, resulting in the identification of isotopies by means of which cohesion can be attained. In structural semantics an isotopy is the backbone of textual analysis – an isotopy being constituted by sememes, compelled by nuclear and textual semes, within the topos alignment of classemes. The Job-texts written by T.T. Cloete in the “transkripsie” and “perifrase” section of Idiolek are used as sample texts. The article attemps to indicate that structural semantics as theory, and especially its amplification as put forward in this article, is able to provide heuristic guidance in tracing the Job/Cloete discourse.

Textualitätsannahmen und die Analyse literarischer Texte

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Winko
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Linguistic Model

AbstractThis article analyses genre-specific methods of textual analysis that are considered to be elementary and ‘close’ to the surface level of literary texts. It focuses on two questions: How do these methods explicitly and implicitly make use of the concept of textuality? And what kind of knowledge do they presuppose? A linguistic model of textuality is taken as the frame of this analysis. The article argues for the utilization of linguistic concepts in literary studies, both in theory and practice. At the same time it is assumed that historical and genre-oriented studies of literary texts focussing on the prerequisites of textuality will contribute to a differentiated view of a prototypical concept of textuality.

scholarly journals Representasi Keindonesiaan dalam Fatimah (1938) Karya Hoesin Bafagih

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-322
Author(s):  
Sayidatul Ummah
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Proof Of Ownership

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap narasi keindonesiaan sebagai respon dari gerakan nasionalisme Indonesia di kalangan keturunan Hadrami yang ditawarkan dalam naskah drama Fatimah (1938).  Fatimah merupakan naskah drama pesanan yang ditulis untuk menyemarakkan kongres Persatuan Arab Indonesia (PAI) ketiga di Semarang pada tahun 1938. Fatimah kerap disebut sebagai salah satu bukti keterlibatan etnis Hadrami dalam menyongsong lahirnya negara Indonesia dan menjadi bagian penting dari PAI. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis tekstual dengan sudut pandang kajian post-kolonial dalam kerangka konsep nasionalisme sebagai sense of belonging dari Anderson (1991). Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa drama Fatimah (1938) merupakan salah satu teks sastra yang turut menyuarakan gagasan keindonesiaan di kalangan keturunan Hadrami. Keindonesiaan sebagai sense of belonging mewujud dalam gagasan Indonesian Dream dan juga kritik terhadap kemapanan yang dimaknai sebagai bentuk perlawanan terhadap kolonial. Kendatipun memperlihatkan kecenderungan pada narasi keindonesiaan, Fatimah tetap memberi ruang pada kehadramian. Namun, alih-alih memberi ruang pada tanah air leluhur, teks justru semakin menegaskan keberpihakan pada keindonesiaan.  This study aims to discuss the Indonesianness narrative in response to the Indonesian nationalism movement among Hadrami leaders offered in the drama script Fatimah (1938). Fatimah is a drama script, written to enliven the third Persatuan Arab Indonesia (PAI) congress in Semarang in 1938. Fatimah is often referred to as one proof of ownership of Hadrami ethnic groups in welcoming the birth of the Indonesian state and an important part of PAI. This study used the method of textual analysis with the postcolonial perspective of Anderson ‘sense of belonging’ in the discussion of the concept of nationalism. The result of the analysis shows that the drama of Fatimah (1938) was one of the literary texts that voiced the contribution of Indonesianism among the Hadrami generation. Indonesianness, as a sense of belonging, embodied the vision of Indonesian Dream and also criticism of establishment which was interpreted as a form of resistance to colonialism. Besides prioritizing the Indonesianness narrative, Fatimah still gave space to the Hadrami. However, instead of giving space to ancestral homeland, the text took side with the Indonesianness. 

Alltägliches erzählen und alltägliches Erzählen

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Gülich
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Text Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Formal Techniques

AbstractStorytelling occurs in everyday conversation as much as in literary texts, where the commonplace is often a topic. This article focuses on both aspects: the ordinary as context and as subject matter of narratives. Generally, narrative research practices a division of labor: everyday narratives belong in the field of linguistics. Here, an example is provided for the analysis of an oral story within the scope of linguistic research that focuses on aspects of narratability and orientation. Literary narratives are treated within the framework of literary studies; the stories, however, are many times the object of textual linguistic research, out of which a few aspects will be sketched here. By way of example, a narrative from Franz Hohler that uses the everyday as its subject matter is analysed linguistically. In addition, the aspects of narratability and orientation are taken from research in conversation and linked to the textual analysis with the concept of textuality from text linguistics. On the basis of various criteria of textuality, this article shows how the commonplace becomes narratable through certain formal techniques in Hohler's texts. The essay advocates a stronger cooperation between linguistics and literary studies in narrative research.

scholarly journals Deer crossing. Moose crossing. Old people crossing. Children crossing: Reading Islamophobia through a vegan lens in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Emelia Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Old People ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Postcolonial Identity ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
The Way

This article uses close textual analysis of Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows in order to reevaluate contemporary theorizations of Islamophobia in relation to global speciesism. By addressing the lacuna in current work engaging with Islamophobia of an understanding of speciesism as a form of discriminatory oppression engrained within the hierarchical divisions of categories of human identity, the article seeks to establish a radically new vegan mode of reading with which to approach literary texts. Exploring the concept of a vegan lens as a mode of reading that seeks to expose the power of language and metaphor in maintaining the absent referent of nonhuman animals, and to challenge the way we understand the construction of human and nonhuman animal identity in relation to Islamophobia, it suggests the variety of ways in which speciesism has been foundational to the assertion of an “us” versus “them” dichotomy. Shamsie’s novel is thus read in order to complicate and multiply the human/nonhuman animal divide apparent within current discussions of postcolonial identity.

Literary Stylistics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Toolan
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Concepts And Categories ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
And Linguistics

Literary stylistics is a practice of analyzing the language of literature using linguistic concepts and categories, with the goal of explaining how literary meanings are created by specific language choices and patterning, the linguistic foregrounding, in the text. While stylistics has periodically claimed to be objective, replicable, inspectable, falsifiable and rigorous, and thus quasi-scientific, subjective interpretation is an ineradicable element of such textual analysis. Nevertheless, the best stylistic analyses, which productively demonstrate direct relations between prominent linguistic forms and patterns in a text and the meanings or effects readers experience, are explicit in their procedures and argumentation, systematic, and testable by independent researchers. Stylistics is an interdiscipline situated between literary studies and linguistics, and from time to time has been shunned by both, who for decades predicted its decline if not disappearance. The opposite has happened; stylistics is flourishing, and some of its proponents argue that it offers more authentic and relevant literary studies than much of what goes on in university literature departments. Equally, some stylisticians see their work as a more coherent linguistics, adapted to a particular purpose, than much of the abstract linguistics pursued by academic linguists. In recent years, stylistics has been reanimated by adoption and adaptation of ideas sourced in cognitive linguistics and by the increasingly easy creation of huge corpora of languages in digital, machine-searchable form; these two developments have given rise to various forms of cognitive stylistics and corpus stylistics. In the early decades of the 21st century, one of the most exciting strands of work in stylistics is exploring kinds of iconicity in literary texts: passages of language that can be seen to enact or perform the effects or meanings the text is intent on conveying.

scholarly journals Emotional schemas and cognitive strategies in fiction: Milkman

Ars Aeterna ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-28
Author(s):  
Roghayeh Farsi
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Development ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Schema Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Role ◽  
Pros And Cons

AbstractThe present study approaches Anna Burns’s novel Milkman (2018) via the lens of Leahy’s Emotional Schema Therapy (EST) (2019) in order to examine the model’s pros and cons for literary analysis. The study focuses on the protagonist’s emotional schemas which are shaped by her beliefs, interpretations and emotional appraisals of her environment. The analysis is carried out on both textual and extra-textual levels. The textual level focuses on character-society relationships and her emotional responses to the demands of her context. The extra-textual level concerns readers and investigates how the protagonist’s emotional appraisals and interpretations influence readers’ emotional schemas, which in the process of reading become either confirmed or restructured. While textual analysis displays the protagonist’s emotional development, the findings of the extra-textual analysis accentuate the therapeutic role that literary texts can play by addressing readers’ emotional schemas.

scholarly journals Representation of The Other in Ghanaian Literary Texts: A Reading of Some Selected Works

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-77
Author(s):  
NII OKAIN TEIKO
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
Colonial Theory

Ghanaian literary texts have been greatly influenced by post-colonial theory which tends to depict and (expose) the inaccuracy of the duality embedded in western imperialism manifested in the concepts of the self and the other. With post-colonial theory as background and specifically the theoretical formulations from Said’s Orientalism (1978), Bhabha’s The location of Culture (1994), and Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (2001), this paper examines how Ghanaian written literature re-inscribes the concept of the Other with intent of justifying the existence of the advantageous self which apparently denigrates the other. Using textual analysis of some representative texts, I argue that Ghanaian literary artists portray the concepts of the self and the other with different connotations and permutations which reflect the ideals of the society within the geo-political space of world Literatures.   

scholarly journals Register-analysis as a means for eliciting the meaning of literary texts

Literator ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Jeffery
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Significant Advance ◽  
Type Analysis ◽  
Meaning Potential ◽  
Register Analysis ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Situation Types ◽  
Practical Criticism

Intuitive reading of a literary text does not enable one to understand how the text means. For that purpose one needs a suitable semantic theory. This article proposes such a theory, based on the concept of register as meaning-potential. Situation-types have semiotic properties, which set up expectations of the kind of meaning likely in that kind of situation, and those expectations constitute the meaning-potential of the situation, that is the register, which is realised in whatever texts are actually uttered there. So register determines meaning; and register is determined by situationtype, which can be precisely defined by means of categories of (discourse-) situation. Five such categories are put forward. Their application constitutes register-analysis. The process is demonstrated on a literary text; and it is claimed that an intuitive, practical-criticism-type analysis could not be as clear, precise and comprehensive as a register-analysis. And the coherent theory of meaning which supplies the categories also provides a consistent, defined metalanguage to work in. So register-analysis offers a significant advance on intuitive reading.

scholarly journals The History of Football and Literature in Brazil (1908-1938)

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (68) ◽  
pp. 744-764
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Republic

Abstract This article explores the emergence of literary texts in Brazil that centre on the relatively new practice of football in the early decades of the 20th century. Primarily published in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the nation’s centres of football practice and literary production, these texts mediated competing visions of the place of football in Brazilian society, and of Brazil itself. Through a combination of textual analysis and socio-political contextualisation, we see how a number of the country’s key literary figures - male and female - drew on football to construct a sense of nation for the new Republic, and their place within it.

Between irony and humor

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galia Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
Comparative Model

The goal of this paper is to propose a model that distinguishes between irony and humor in the context of literary texts. The comparative model was constructed based on existing models, and elaborated on them, substantiating the model through textual analysis focusing on cues for irony (Clark and Gerrig 1984; Grice 1975, 1978; Haverkate 1990; Sperber and Wilson 1981; Wilson and Sperber 1992;) and cues for humor (Alexander 1997; Jeffers 1995; Oring 1989; Raskin and Attardo 1994). The research was based on four conceptual paradigms: pragmatic studies of irony, pragmatic studies of humor, a pragmatic approach to the study of literary texts, and theories of text interpretation. The textual analysis was based on an existing model for the interpretation of indirect speaker’s meanings (Dascal and Weizman 1987; Weizman and Dascal 1991; 2005), and on the concepts “cues” and “clues” as employed in that model.

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